CorePower Yoga adds red-light recovery classes with HigherDose partnership

CorePower Yoga is turning recovery into a class feature. The chain launched Red Light Classes with HigherDose on April 29, folding red and near-infrared LED panels into select studios in 10 markets and pairing the tech with existing Yoga Sculpt and hot yoga sessions instead of a separate treatment slot.

CorePower is framing the rollout as part of its larger class-and-recovery ecosystem, not a one-off wellness add-on. Its blog says the experience extends “on the mat, after class, and at home,” and the red-light format is tied to C2, the company’s moderate-intensity, heated power-vinyasa class. That makes the move feel less like a spa detour and more like a new premium layer inside the regular schedule.

The market map matters. CorePower said the launch reached New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County, Boston, Denver, Austin and Miami, putting the concept in some of the chain’s most competitive urban and suburban studios. The company says it has more than 200 studios across the U.S., while outside location counts in spring 2026 put the footprint at roughly 230 to 234 locations. In a crowded boutique-yoga market, the question is not whether CorePower can get people through the door. It is how much more it can stack onto a class people already want to book.

That is where HigherDose comes in. The brand, founded in 2016 by Katie Kaps and Lauren Berlingeri, calls itself a female-founded wellness-tech company and built its name around infrared-sauna recovery products before expanding into at-home devices like the Full Body Red Light Mat. Bringing that label into CorePower gives the studio chain a recognizable wellness-tech partner and a clear merchandising angle at the same time. CorePower is also stocking HigherDose retail items, including the red-light mat, copper body brush, magnesium spray and related recovery products, which makes the studio launch look like both an experience and a sales floor.

The science is promising, but the claims still deserve a careful read. Red-light therapy, also called photobiomodulation, uses red or near-infrared light aimed at the skin, and research has linked it to reduced exercise-induced muscle damage, lower inflammation markers and some skin-collagen benefits. But recent medical and science coverage has also made clear that the evidence is stronger for targeted devices than for whole-room ambient exposure. A 2025 systematic review on whole-body photobiomodulation for exercise performance and recovery shows the full-body use case is still being sorted out.

That tension explains why this partnership is interesting. CorePower, founded by Trevor Tice in Denver in 2002 and now led by CEO Niki Leondakis, is betting that consumers will pay for recovery-forward experiences even when the evidence is still maturing. Some locations are already listing waiver requirements for the red-light format, a reminder that the chain is selling a premium wellness experience first and a clinical claim second.